Written by Gwenda on April 2nd 2013
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely
coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used Londonderry Air, found
Scrapkit is a lovely FTU kit by Claudias Creationz
called Romance
You can download it
Tubes of choice. I used Cherished by Keith Garvey. You
can purchase these beautiful tubes from his online store
Mask of choice – I used 0Mask046 LT
I’m not sure where I got this mask, so I have
supplied it. Please let me know if this is yours, and I will either remove, or
supply credits.
Template by Twyztedts playroom. I used Hearts-on-ice
temp 3. You can download this
Open Hearts-on-ice temp 3.
Copy, and close original
Delete raster 14 (credits), raster 10 shadow, raster
11 shadow, raster 12 shadow, raster 13 (wordart)
Resize all 90%
Image – canvas size 700 x 600
Click on white layer at the bottom and floodfill
white
Set foreground color to #ae7732 and background to #907e77
Make BG gradient 315 degrees with 0 repeat
Click on white background layer.
Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.
Apply 0Mask 046.
In layers palette merge group.
Mirror mask.
Mirror mask.
Starting from the bottom layer
Raster 7 (long purple rectangle) – Resize Paper
9 by 70% twice. Paste above the Raster 7 layer. Slide to the left so it
covers the rectangle.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror and merge both papers
together.
Click on Raster 7 layer. Selections – select all.
Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on Paper 9 and hit delete.
Deselect.
Sharpen.
Give inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow.
Delete template layer.
Raster 8 (two thin rectangles) – Duplicate. On one copy erase the top rectangle. On
the other, erase the bottom one, so the two thin rectangles are both on their
own raster. Rename these LOWER RECT and UPPER
RECT.
The reason we are splitting them is so that the
gradient doesn’t spread between the two. It’s a much nice effect.
Set foreground color to #87746d and background to
#cbbdb9. Make background gradient 0 degrees with 1 repeat (lighter color in the
middle)
Click on LOWER RECT. Selections – select all.
Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with
gradient.
Deselect.
Dropshadow.
Delete template layer.
Click on UPPER RECT
and repeat the above step.
Copy of Raster 9 (horizontal hearts) – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections
– defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Give hearts inner bevel of choice
Adjust – add noise, Uniform 60, monochrome box
checked
Dropshadow.
Merge the two thin rectangles and the horizontal
heart layers together.
Duplicate. In layers palette, move one copy to the
top. Click the little eye to close it for now.
You will need this again at the end of the tag.
Raster 2 (Oval) – Selections – select all. Selections – float.
Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Raster 12 (oval frame) – Selections – select all. Selections – float.
Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #87746d
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Give inner bevel of choice. Adjust – add noise,
Uniform 60, monochrome box checked
Dropshadow.
Frame 1 (from scrapkit) – Mirror. Resize 70%. Paste above oval frame layer
and slide right.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 7 (butterfly and bead doodle
from scrapkit) –Resize 70%. Paste
above frame 1 layer and slide to top left corner.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Raster 3 (vertical purple rectangle)– Set foreground color to #87746d and background to
#cbbdb9. Make background gradient 90 degrees with 3 repeats
Click on Raster 3. Selections – select all.
Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with
gradient.
Deselect.
Dropshadow.
Delete template layer.
Raster 9 ( vertical hearts) – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections
– defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Give hearts inner bevel of choice
Adjust – add noise, Uniform 60, monochrome box
checked
Dropshadow.
Raster 4 (blue rectangle) – Resize Paper
3 by 80% then 90%. Paste above the Raster 4 layer and slide around until
you have it where you want..
Click on raster 4. Selections – select all.
Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert. Click on Paper 3
and hit delete.
Deselect.
Sharpen
Dropshadow
Delete template layer.
Element 27 (flower row) – Resize 70% then 80%.
Paste above blue rectangle layer and slide down and
left.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 22 (tree) – Paste above element 27 layer. Erase trunk and
slide left.
Duplicate – mirror and resize 75%. Sharpen and slide
right
Dropshadow both.
Raster 5 (large heart) – Paste close up of Tube above the raster 5 layer and
slide into the position you want.
Click on raster 5 Selections – select all. Selections
– float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 4 into selection. DO NOT
DESELECT.
Selections – invert. Click on close up tube and hit
delete.
Deselect.
Sharpen paper.
Delete template layer.
Drop opacity of tube to 18
Raster 10 (large heart frame) – Selections – select all. Selections – float.
Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #87746d
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Give inner bevel of choice. Adjust – add noise,
Uniform 60, monochrome box checked
Dropshadow.
Raster 6 (small heart) – Selections – select all. Selections – float.
Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 4 into selection.
Deselect.
Sharpen paper.
Delete template layer.
Raster 11 (small heart frame) – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections
– defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #87746d
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Give inner bevel of choice. Adjust – add noise,
Uniform 60, monochrome box checked
Dropshadow.
Element 10 (birds) – Resize 50%. Paste above small heart frame and
slide left and down.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 33 (orchids) – Resize 40%. Paste above birds layer and slide left
and down.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 1 (butterfly) – Resize 40% twice. Paste above orchids layer. Slide
left.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror and slide up.
Dropshadow both.
Main Tube – Paste above butterflies and slide into position.
Dropshadow.
To finish off, re-open the merged horizontal thin
rectangles / hearts
Erase one of them so you just have a single bar.
Slide this down to the bottom of the tag to cover the
tube’s cut off legs.
You don’t have to do this bit, especially if you use
a different tube, but I thought it finished it off nicely.
Add any other embellishments of choice.
Crop & resize if desired.
Add copyrights and name.
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